• Why Iraq's biblical paradise is becoming a salty wasteland

    Why Iraq's biblical paradise is becoming a salty wasteland

    Dec 20, 2018 11:30 PM EST

    ... cycle of flow, biodiversity, floods, you know, this renewal of fertility of the soil. Jane Ferguson: Already, farmers are being driven from the land in Iraq. In the northern province of Nineveh, wheat farmers struggle to keep their crops alive in parched, dry earth. Farmer Sami Yessi says his wheat ...

  • After losing most of its control in Iraq, ISIS is starting to reemerge

    After losing most of its control in Iraq, ISIS is starting to reemerge

    Dec 02, 2018 10:26 PM EST

    ... the Kurdish city of Suleimania. DLER GHAZI: The presence of ISIS in our area is because of the security vacuum between us, the government of Iraqi Kurdistan, and the government of Iraq. And in addition there’s a political crisis between us that has allowed such groups to spring up ...

  • ISIS returns to Iraq, and a town confronts a new wave of terror

    ISIS returns to Iraq, and a town confronts a new wave of terror

    Sep 16, 2018 09:46 PM EST

    ... stay at another house, but still I feel afraid. I fear for my family. I put my family in danger because I cooperated with the Iraqi army. SIMONA FOLTYN: Many civilians around Hawija have resigned themselves to once again living under ISIS. They no longer have faith in their own ...

  • Political instability facilitates resurgence of Islamic State in Iraq

    Political instability facilitates resurgence of Islamic State in Iraq

    Sep 09, 2018 10:00 PM EST

    ... to fight ISIS, but Ghazi claims that in Suleimania Province at least, they haven’t carried out a single joint operation. Dler Ghazi: if the Iraqi government does an operation today, they only inform us. They don’t invite us to work together. The Iraqi government has completed two operations ...

  • Security forces deploy in Iraq's Basra following violence

    Security forces deploy in Iraq's Basra following violence

    Sep 08, 2018 07:03 PM EST

    The protests began in June, tapered off, then restarted Monday after a surge in water poisoning cases. Iraq's government has scrambled to meet the growing demand for public services and jobs, but has been hindered by years of endemic corruption and a financial crisis fueled by diminished oil revenues ...

  • ‘The Fighters’ help us understand Iraq and Afghanistan wars

    ‘The Fighters’ help us understand Iraq and Afghanistan wars

    Aug 13, 2018 10:25 PM EST

    We're not going to be able to make Iraqi or Afghan security forces in a few short years and have them be competent. You don't make an army in a few years, and we tried to if both countries and these units have not faired well, and they ...

  • British Museum to return looted antiquities to Iraq

    British Museum to return looted antiquities to Iraq

    Aug 09, 2018 05:55 PM EST

    ... identifying and returning looted antiquities to Iraq." "Such collaboration between Iraq and the United Kingdom is vital for the preservation and the protection of the Iraqi heritage," he said. Ancient Mesopotamia — modern-day Iraq — was the cradle of urban civilization, and pre-war Iraq's museums held priceless collections from ...

  • Iraq and Afghan war vets exposed to toxic air struggle for breath -- and a diagnosis

    Iraq and Afghan war vets exposed to toxic air struggle for breath -- and a diagnosis

    Jul 20, 2018 10:35 PM EST

    Among the more than 2.5 million men and women who have served in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, there are many veterans -- exposed to sandstorms, burn pits and other hazards -- who suffer from a mysterious pulmonary illness, as well as the confusion and doubt that surrounds their condition. The NewsHour's Dan Sagalyn...

  • In Iraq, women whose husbands joined ISIS face severe punishment

    In Iraq, women whose husbands joined ISIS face severe punishment

    Jun 16, 2018 08:33 PM EST

    ... happening here. JANE ARRAF: Well Hari, so this is one of the leftovers of a very long, very bitter war. Now as ISIS came into Iraq and took over a third of Iraq when it came in in 2014, people flowed in, jihadis flowed in, and with them flowed in ...

  • Iraq's al-Sadr, promising reform, is constrained by Iran

    Iraq's al-Sadr, promising reform, is constrained by Iran

    May 20, 2018 08:50 PM EST

    ... that Iraq's sovereignty was going to be the new government's "guiding principle." "We warn any other country that wants to involve itself in Iraqi politics not to cross the Iraqi people," he said. However, even as al-Sadr is in position to nominate a prime minister and set ...